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Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:38:34 -0800

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Trembling Giants by Michæl Paukner

Impermanence

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:44:00 -0800

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Nothing remains the same for two consecutive moments. Heraclitus said we can never bathe twice in the same river. Confucius, while looking at a stream, said, “It is always flowing, day and night.” The Buddha implored us not just to talk about impermanence, but to use it as an instrument to help us penetrate deeply into reality and obtain liberating insight. We may be tempted to say that because things are impermanent, there is suffering. But the Buddha encouraged us to look again. Without impermanence, life is not possible. How can we transform our suffering if things are not impermanent? How can our daughter grow up into a beautiful young lady? How can the situation in the world improve? We need impermanence for social justice and for hope.

If you suffer, it is not because things are impermanent. It is because you believe things are permanent. When a flower dies, you don’t suffer much, because you understand that flowers are impermanent. But you cannot accept the impermanence of your beloved one, and you suffer deeply when she passes away.

If you look deeply into impermanence, you will do your best to make her happy right now. Aware of impermanence, you become positive, loving and wise. Impermanence is good news. Without impermanence, nothing would be possible. With impermanence, every door is open for change. Impermanence is an instrument for our liberation.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Frequently the most talented people are those most aware of their own deficiencies and most willing..."

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:19:20 -0800

““Frequently the most talented people are those most aware of their own deficiencies and most willing to work hard to overcome them””

- Lee Strasberg, The Dancer Prepares: Modern Dance for Beginners (via getdance) (via bridgettelizabeth) (via nihilnoetia) (via jjarichardson) (via crashinglybeautiful)

"my ceiling the sky, my carpet the grass, my music the lowing of herds as they pass; my books are the..."

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:54:19 -0800

““my ceiling the sky, my carpet the grass,
my music the lowing of herds as they pass;
my books are the brooks, my sermons the stones,
my parson’s a wolf on a pulpit of bones.””

- allen mccanless (cowboy poet), 1885 (via cosmic-dust)

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Philip Whalen on Writing and Meditation

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:51:50 -0700

Philip Whalen on Writing and Meditation:

crashinglybeautiful:

“The real tension, I think, is between official poetry, the kind that we’re taught in school and is kept in libraries, and the kind we really believe in - what we are writing and what our friends write. The same thing holds for meditation: what we discover for ourselves and learn. At some point you can forget it and go off and make a pot of spaghetti. We used to do go down to Muir Beach years ago to gather mussels off the rocks. We’d build a bonfire, put seaweed on the fire to steam the mussels. We’d eat them, then jump up and down in the waves and have fun. That was enough. Probably enough. Or too much. Oh, I guess Blake said it, “Enough, or too much.” That’s all.”

— Philip Whalen

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"The mythologist Joseph Campbell was asked by an interviewer how a regular person could preserve his..."

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:50:43 -0700

“The mythologist Joseph Campbell was asked by an interviewer how a regular person could preserve his sense of the mythic when so many feel too besieged by the claims of every day living. He said, “You must have a place to which you can go, in your heart, in your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not know what you owe anyone or what anyone owes you. You must have a place you can go to where you do not know what your work is or who you work for, where you do not know who you are married to or who your children are.””

- from When I Wax (via crashinglybeautiful)

"Often enough God gives man a glimpse of happiness, and then utterly ruins him."

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:45:47 -0700

“Often enough God gives man a glimpse of happiness, and then utterly ruins him.”

- Solon (in The Histories by Herodotus, Book I) (via whokilled) (via smut-to-go)

benjaminhilts: nevver: The Night the Lights Went Out, 1965

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:25:58 -0700

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nevver:

The Night the Lights Went Out, 1965

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Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:25:29 -0700

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aja: how to be happy in business - venn diagram

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:36:43 -0700

aja:

how to be happy in business - venn diagram

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"The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it...."

Mon, 18 May 2009 16:03:24 -0700

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.”

- Chuck Palahniuk (Choke) (via unsolvedmysteries)

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Mon, 18 May 2009 12:32:08 -0700

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"And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at..."

Mon, 18 May 2009 02:28:04 -0700

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter — they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”

- Sylvia Plath (via unsolvedmysteries)